Disney puts down pencils, moves to computers

Posted Sep 19, 2005, 4:04 PM ET by Melissa Summers
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Walt Disney is moving away from hand drawn animation while facing stiff competition in the animated features world. Pixar and DreamWorks have consistently beaten Disney hand drawn features in the box office. Disney Studios reached the height of their popularity in 1994 with the release of ‘The Lion King’ which brought in $764.8 million at the worldwide box office. Since then Disney’s films have not performed as well, the last nine animated movies Disney made took in only $758.3 million combined. ‘The Incredibles’ created by Pixar brought in $630 million alone. Disney animators have expressed resistance to using computers but Disney has gone ahead hoping to breath life into it’s animated features department. The first of several computer animated films coming from Disney is ’Chicken Little’ on November 4.

Nowadays, Hand drawn animation is gone. 2 Major company which are Pixar and DreamWorks make 3D animation with a computer, continues successful the entertainment industry. Disney changed their plans. The Disney’s first 3D Animation “Chicken Little,” is coming soon on November 4.